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Privatization and changes in the wage structure : evidence from firm personnel records
Melly, Blaise (contributor); Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor) - 2008
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763070
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Fairness and freight-handlers : local labor-market conditions and wage-fairness perceptions in a trucking firm
Verhoogen, Eric (contributor); Burks, Stephen V. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper draws on evidence from an internal attitude survey in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. The key element of our research design is that local managers have no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002459131
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On the effects of COVID-19 safer-at-home policies on social distancing, car crashes and pollution
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Wright, Taylor - 2020
decreased while time in residence rises sharply. With less vehicle traffic, we find: a 50% reduction in vehicular collisions; an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214304
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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716521
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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716523
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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor) - 2008
an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716530
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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2007
In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003634616
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Analyzing the labor market activity of immigrant families in Germany
Basilio, Leilanie (contributor);  … - 2007
the family's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637427
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Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany
Sierminska, Eva (contributor); Frick, Joachim R. (contributor) - 2008
evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729420
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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? : evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst (contributor); Spengler, Hannes (contributor) - 2008
diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759023